ACF River Basin Daily Streamflow and Water Quality Data

Continuous daily streamflow data for nine surface-water sites in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin, collected from August 1992 to September 1995. The data were gathered by the USGS National Water Quality Assessment program across a 19,800 square mile drainage area in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. It focuses on five major land uses including poultry production, urban areas, silviculture, and row crop agriculture.

Use Cases

• Model streamflow trends at nine gaged sites from 1992-1995 using daily time-series data.
• Analyze correlations between land-use types (e.g., poultry production, urban Atlanta) and water-quality constituents presented in related tables.
• Assess hydrological conditions at three mainstem integrator sites and six land-use indicator sites for the specified water years.
• Study the impact of clastic versus karst hydrogeologic settings in the coastal plain on streamflow patterns.

Strengths

• Data spans a defined 3-year period from August 1992 to September 1995.
• Focus on nine specific monitoring sites with continuous daily measurements.
• Collected under the structured USGS NAWQA program with defined project components.

Limitations

• Temporal coverage is limited to the early 1990s and is not recent.
• Sample size is constrained to nine streamflow sites within the basin.
• Specific row counts, column details, and data completeness for individual constituents are unknown.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program.

Collection Method

Field collection of surface- and ground-water quality data at monitored sites.

Time Range

August 1992 to September 1995.

Freshness

Data collection ended in September 1995; no update frequency is indicated.

Geography

Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River basin, covering approximately 19,800 square miles in western Georgia, eastern Alabama, and the Florida panhandle.